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Topic: Re: Submitting form outside a web browser (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 28255
From: prodok
Date: 10/8/2001 01:44 AM

Unfortunately, it is not possible to directly submit form data in a
file server environment from Reader. Reader can do that only in a web
server environment.

However, if it is possible to submit to a web server, but you do not
want to run Acrobat (Reader) under a web browser, you have the
possibility to use the GET method for submitting, and stitch together
the argument string for this method. You then use the getURL()
JavaScript method to submit that information. What will happen now is
that your configured web browser will open and send that URL to the
server. The server-side script then can do with that data wath it is
told to do. Note that in this scenario, Acrobat does not run under
the browser, but beside the browser.

The drawback of this procedure is that your amount of date to be
transmittable is limited (something around 2000 characters), and must
be URLencoded. This may require some additional processing in the
form, but I can confirm that this works.

If you can not provide a web server to contact, you can not use
Reader to submit data; you would need at least an Intermediate PDF
Viewer, such as Acrobat Approval.

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
e-mail: mailto:max@prodok.com
http://www.prodok.com



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>I need to submit a form (as FDF data) to a local
>network server using reader.
>
>Is it possible to do this using Reader but without
>running the form inside a web browser?
>